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Preposterous Pride & Prejudice Sequels

 

I suffer from chronic insomnia, and one sleepless night I amused myself during the wee hours by devising a slew of P&P- inspired titles, and the stories that might go with them.

Joan Ellen   

  • Pride & Presidents: Mr and Mrs Darcy emigrate to America, where Mr Darcy agrees to run for the highest office in the land: only to discover his opponent in the election is his own wife!

  • Pride & Precipice: When Mr Wickham falls over a cliff to his death, the magistrates are interrogating the woman who once jilted him, Georgeanna Darcy. It is up to Elizabeth to find the true culprit... though the trail of evidence leads straight to her own sister, Lydia.

  • Pride & Proboscis: Mr Darcy breaks his handsome nose in a riding accident and worries that Elizabeth will no longer love him.

  • Pride & Predicates: Proud Mr Darcy tries to hide the shocking truth from his wife: that the letter he gave her at Rosings was dictated to Col Fitzwilliam, and that he himself is abominably bad at grammar and spelling.

  • Pride & Predators: Mr & Mrs Darcy encounter a pride of lions on an African safari.

  • Pride & Premises: In her quest to become Derbyshire's top-selling real estate agent, Elizabeth tries to persuade Darcy to put Pemberley on the market and move to a new luxury condo in Lambton.

  • Pride & Premiums: After leaving the regulars to open his own insurance agency, George Wickham calls at Pemberley to try and sell Darcy a Life Insurance policy.

  • Pride & Pratfalls: The Darcys host an itinerant vaudeville troupe at Pemberley, and Elizabeth discovers what fun it is to give Darcy a pie-in-the-face.

  • Pride & Prickly Heat: The Darcys vacation in the tropics, and come home with an uncomfortable & unsightly rash.

  • Pride & Prom Night: A slasher is stalking the teens of Derbyshire, and Darcy fears Georgeanna may be the next victim.

  • Pride & Prestidigitation: While training to become an amateur magician, Darcy attempts to saw his mother-in-law in half... with tragic results. 

  • Pride & Predestination: Mrs Darcy falls under the spell of a fiery Calvinist preacher; and the sequel:

  • Pride & Pranayama: Mrs Darcy tires of Calvinism and takes up yoga & meditation.

  • Pride & Pug: The Darcys visit Mansfield Park.

  • Pride & Prudery: Surfing the web, Darcy stumbles upon www.pemberley.com, and is outraged to discover hundreds of strange women obsessing over the fit of his breeches.

  • Pride & Prosciutto: After inventing a delicious new bread using grains grown on the home farm at Pemberley, one of Darcy's french cooks opens his own delicatessen, and a passion for the new "Pembernickel" bread sweeps the kingdom.

  • Pride & Puberty: Mortified because his voice cracks whenever he talks to a pretty girl, 14-year-old Fitzwilliam Darcy vows, "I WILL conquer this!"

  • Pride & Prêt-à-Porter: Darcy launches his own line of après-bath wear.

  • Pride and Paparazzi: Infuriated by Mr Darcy's refusal to let Mrs Darcy's portrait be exhibited (due to a mixture of love, pride and delicacy according to a Miss JA, who should know) the owner of a London art gallery sends numerous sketch artists of Italian origin to Derbyshire with orders to follow the couple around and try to capture them doing something indiscreet. (Contributed by Kathleen Glancy)

  • Pride & Professional Help: Joan Ellen seeks psychiatric treatment for an obsessive-compulsive disorder which makes her unable to stop thinking up ridiculous book titles inspired by P&P. Learning many others suffer from the same disorder, she starts an online support group... :-)

© 2004 Joan Ellen Delman

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